The Sunbury ferry has had a fantastic first year and has had more than 6000 passengers. What a boon for the area. This electric craft runs at weekends only from a specially made pontoon down the passage opposite the Riverside Arts Centre and takes you over to the Walton bank. There you can walk along […]
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by Bill Cunningham 159 Anything that counteracts scamming is wel-come. And now we have a new tool to use, allowing us to check if a call from our bank really is a call from our bank. In the last year over £500m was scammed in bank transfer fraud. Less than half of that was refunded
By Nick Pollard With the former police station in Staines Road East, Sunbury, being converted into flats, I thought it would be an opportune moment to look at the history of policing in Sunbury. The photo shows the staff of 5 sergeants and 2 acting sergeants (with two stripes) surrounded by 18 constables in front
Mike Bodnar investigates the rise of doorbell cameras Ding-dong! It’s a sound that makes us drop everything and head to the front door to see who it is. We don’t know of course until we open it, or at least that’s the way it used to be. Today we can see who’s there from the
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By Monica Chard Well, it’s all coming together nicely. The Lower Sunbury Business Community Christ-mas market on December 9th is proving pop-ular and stalls are almost sold out. If you want a stall please email John Carey: johncar-ey@active-edge.co.uk. There will be food, gifts, a roving Santa, the village raffle and the Salvation Army. It runs
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Protect & Survive No…not the 1970s public information campaign exhorting us to hide under a table in case of nuclear attack. This is far more useful. It’s my public information campaign about protecting tender perennials and taking cuttings to over winter so your plants survive and even multiply. First the protection: to protect tender perennials
At the end of 2019, we attended a climate change day at the River-house Barn in Walton. One of the highlights of the day was the chil-dren’s choir We Are The Voice, who performed songs written by choir leader Niamh Clune. We raved about them, saying they should go on Britain’s Got Talent. Well how
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SUNBURY REMEMBERS 2021 marks 100 years of the Royal British Legion supporting the armed forces community. It is also 100 years since the start of The Poppy Appeal. Sunbury Royal British Legion Branch together with other members from the community are working to ensure Sunbury marks Remembrance Day in the most fitting way possible given
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By Monica Chard The Spelthorne Business Competi-tion, brain child of Business Secre-tary and Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, is in it’s 7th year. We gathered at the BP learning centre in late September to hear the Drag-on Den style pitches from 6 final-ists, made to a panel of local busi-ness leaders. Once more, the stand-ard of
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With the increase in domestic violence and escalating need for shelter for the vulnerable who may be sleeping rough, Spelthorne Council have invested some of their profits from their housing portfolio to build a be-spoke shelter. The White House (which is not in fact white, nor a house!) is situated next to the new Spelthorne
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At last we are seeing some-thing like nor-mality back at the Riverside and already we have staged vari-ous live events. We have several more in the com-ing weeks; the last few perfor-mances of Zodi-ac’s colourful song and dance show, more jazz, a quiz, the sponsored piano playathon plus the week-long competitve drama festival. That is
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Haven’t we missed live performances?! The restrictions of lockdowns have made us realise how much we took for granted. I consider myself lucky to have attended the first of the Riverside Arts Centre Showcase come back events re-cently. This afternoon tea concert featured Mengyang Pan (pictured), a pianist of international class and re-nown. She has
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Housing Need and the Green Belt Few subjects have been the cause of greater consternation, confusion (and occasionally suspicion) in recent years than the Council’s position in relation to housing need and the proposed development of certain parcels of green belt. In answer to a question at a recent meeting of the full Council, Cllr.
By Nick Pollard Shepperton Studios has been the centre of film making in our area since the 1930s, but filming in the village dates back considerably before this, to the early days of cinema in this country. Cecil Hepworth of Walton-on-Thames established the first purpose-built film studios in Britain at his home in Hurst Grove
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Autumnal Equinox arrives and darker nights set in. In polic-ing terms darker nights mean more burglaries. It is easy for a burglar to see if you are out if your house sits in darkness in a row of warm glowing lights. There are so many simple and cheap devices to ensure
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By Monica Chard With so many events cancelled, even in recent months, we all need some fun. So the Lower Sunbury Business Community is starting to make plans for CHRISTMAS! We know how much you all love the Lower Sunbury Christ-mas market, so we are going to be running it again this year. Put the
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Following Nick Pollard’s article in the September 2021 issue of Sunbury Matters, we received an interesting email from reader Richard Wood. He was intrigued by the reference to the telephone number of the Sunbury bank as Sunbury 4. He commented “I was a plumber until retirement and many years ago I removed a lid over
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By Monica Chard You will most probably have heard about the impending cut to Universal Credit, scheduled for early October. A reduction of £20 per week may not sound huge to many of us, but to some it will make the differ-ence between being able to feed a family, or not. The Trussell Trust predicts
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Great to hear about this pilot scheme to bring Elective Vehicle (EV) charging points to our borough. Spelthorne is being given an alloca-tion of 20 to be rolled out as a trial and 4 will be stationed in Lower Sunbury. So far so good. We are told that electric is the way forward, using cleaner
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